Ethical use of AI
Ethical Considerations When Using AI
In the higher education community, the use of AI applications requires you to recognize your responsibility as a creator. A machine is not an ethical actor, so the responsibility for research ethics and compliance with legislation always lies with a natural person.
What does the AI do with the data? Note that the AI service may be located outside the EU/EEA area.
- Copyright is created by a human and is the result of creative work. If the human element is missing, it is not a work. AI is not a natural person, so it cannot obtain copyright.
- Copyright is yours provided that you have not violated anyone else’s copyright, for example, by misusing AI.
- Check the publishers’ terms of use when planning to create a summary of a scientific article using an AI application. The terms of use often prohibit activities such as text mining and the use of artificial intelligence.
- AI applications, however, are not capable of determining whether they infringe on copyrights.
- Evaluate the text, image, or other material produced by AI from the perspective that it does not reduce fairness, reliability of information, increase discrimination, or support prejudices. AI applications cannot guarantee that the information produced with their help will not harm other people or the environment. The applications do not promise to respect human rights, such as privacy or security. AI applications are required to be responsible, transparent, and explainable, which includes describing the background data used for training the applications.
- Do not misrepresent or fabricate data or results using AI. You must be able to verify how the data was processed or how the results were achieved.
- Remember to describe the use of AI openly and use it transparently in assignments, theses, reports, and publications.
- Remember that you are always responsible for the accuracy of the results and must respect the rights of others.
- Do not present AI outputs as your own. Remember proper citation and source marking.
- If you want to input copyrighted text, audio, images, or other material produced by someone else into AI, first ensure that you have permission from the author or through terms of use.
- Both staff and students should use AI programs supported and security-checked by Jamk.
- Respect autonomy and privacy when using AI.
- Consider the societal and environmental impacts of the AI used.
If ethical violations described above – disregard and misconduct – occur when using AI, a report will always be made. Proven disregard and misconduct will always have consequences, such as redoing the work, a reprimand, a warning, or even temporary suspension of the student or, in the case of staff, a proven RI violation.
For more information and instructions:
For students: Ethical Principles and Research Ethics at Jamk (intranet)
For staff: Ethical principles and Research Ethics at Jamk (intranet)